There is no logical reason to park our collective asses in office, for digital work. From employer's perspective, it is just to micro manage people, keep commer

There is no logical reason to park our collective asses in office, for digital work. From employer's perspective, it is just to micro manage people, keep commercial real estate prices high and plain old "I am the boss, so I can make you dance to my tune" thing. I have been working remote for about 7 years now. In my current job, I haven't met anyone in person, nor have I shown my face in any of the meetings. Despite this, I am working well with my team. Of course there is middle management who have nothing better to do than micro manage and schedule calls. So they have now started making noise about people not being on camera. This is a ploy by Amazon to force people to quit. Nothing else. All this talk about "innovate, collaborate, connect..." - these are just empty, meaningless buzz words from middle management who somehow need to justify their paycheck. Even if there are some miniscule advantages of going to office, they are vastly outnumbered by the advantages of working from home. I am just a code monkey, not a dentist or a veterinarian, makes zero sense to spend two hours (or more) a day in commute, clogging traffic and being in a bad mood even before reaching the office.